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Metabolic Enzyme Promotes Neuroblastoma Aggressiveness

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Potential treatment may prevent cancer cells from hijacking metabolic pathways.

New Computational Technique, Software Identifies Different Cell Types within a Tumor and its Microenvironment

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Offers an analytical approach that has no equivalents in the current bioinformatics/systems biology toolbox.

Digital Pens Provide New Insight into Cognitive Testing Results

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Use of a digital pen during cognitive assessments allows researchers to identify patterns of test performance that correlate with different measures of cognitive and physical function.

Lottery-Based Incentives Do Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

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Researchers hope findings will lead to a shift in focus away from ineffective and expensive lotteries, and on to further study of other programs that may more successfully increase vaccine uptake.

BUSM Awarded $4.1M to Support the Next Generation of Trail-blazers in Multidisciplinary Lung Science

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The NIH has continuously funded this research training program for 50 years.

Researchers Create Structural Model that Explains How Charged Biopolymers Enhance Protein Clustering in Amyloid Diseases

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Study improves understanding of how heparan sulfate and related biopolymers such as heparin, can promote amyloid deposition in various organs.

Racism and Segregation Associated with Advanced Stage Lung Cancer, Decreased Likelihood of Receiving Surgery Among Blacks

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Study highlights the impact that structural racism and residential segregation has on non-small cell lung cancer outcomes.

Researchers Identify Gene Responsible for Increased Risk of Infantile Fragility

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Finding may have implications for the diagnosis of child abuse, non-accidental trauma.

Study Reveals Factors that Shape Haitian Creole-Speaking Women’s Birth Plans after C-Sections

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The information was used to develop a group counseling curriculum to enhance shared decision making between the women and their care provider.

Survival is More Important than a Chronic Medical Condition in Prioritizing Medical Care when Resources are Limited

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Findings support excluding chronic heart failure, cirrhosis, chronic lung disease from a list of conditions which should be triaged as lower priority for ventilators if there is a shortage.

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